we begin with hurricane irma tearing through like a buzz saw inside the satellite image of the eye you can see the island of barbuda. heres what it sounded like on the ground.

>> you're told to evacuate. get out quickly. remember we can rebuild your home but we cannot rebuild your life. >> wise words and in florida cars are lined up on freeways. and mayor telling them to be self sufficient for up to three days. >> hurricane ima has caused at least three deaths in the caribbean. >> they say irma destroyed 90% of the structures and vehicles. >> there is widespread damage on the island. maggie ruly has more. >> hurricane irma is tearing through the caribbean with 180 mile-per-hour winds. >> it is really ripping right now. >> i've covered hurricanes for more than 25 years. this is unlike anything i've ever seen. >> reporter: the streets of tourist hot spot st. martin under water.

the airport reportedly destroyed. >> i'm here outside, shaking the doors. >> reporter: on the small island of barbuda seen directly in the center of irma's eye, some 90% of the island's buildings are destroyed. in puerto rico potentially the worst storm to hit the island in a century. now florida is gearing up for a direct hit. >> never had a cat 5, never experienced it and it's just scary. >> reporter: they're nad full scale evacuation. >> so large that we're hoping it doesn't follow us if we leave. >> this is what interstate 75 looks like right now. >> reporter: at the airports it's a mad rush to get out. so far more than 1,000 flights have been canceled to and from miami this weekend. the lines for water wrapped around the block. >> gas is running out everywhere

right now . president trump have already called the state of emergency for puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. >> maggie ruly, abc news, new york. well, meteorologist putell is tracking the storm. >> she is here with irma's position and wind speed. >> this monster storm as we see on live doppler 7 is still holding strong. it's a category 5. you can see it's passed north of san juan puerto rico and the eye of the storm is tremendously large. this is one of the strongest hurricanes obrecord in the atlantic so far. currently a category 5 of 185 miles per hour. tracking north/northwest at 16. its next target turks & caicos as a cat 5 will bring drenching

rain, big waves and damaging winds. we're already seeing some of the damage. it's going to continue through saturday evening as a cat 4 and then it will be impacting the florida coastline right now. it looks like as early as saturday evening as a category 4. weakening to a cat 2 by monday evening. biggest thing is the storm surge. you can see how large the storm is. obviously the heavy winds and isolated 20 inch totals. behind it we have hurricane jose. a threat to the leeward island and in the gulf of mexico hurricane katia will be making land fall right now it looks like through vaur crews. biggest danger is ir. >> thanks very much. pg&e announced it is sending crews to help restore power to

florida. they're preparing to leave tomorrow morning for the east coast. the airlines are allowig people to reschedule their flights in anticipation of hurricane irma arriving in florida. abc 7 news reporter. >> reporter: some of these passengers arriving this morning from tampa are in the bay area on business. most of them are worried about the people they left behind. >> everyone's saying if you wait until tomorrow it will be too late. it will be grid locked. so minute by minute we're trying to figure out what to do. >> reporter: she did what she could to prepare. people in other parts of south florida have done the same. >> as much as i could possibly do, we took everything from outside, everything that's perishable, i got rid of. >> she described the chaos already building. >> all the water's already sold

out. supermarkets don't really have food for the families and schools are closed thursday and friday. the tolls were lifted by the governor. >> reporter: after what happened in houston. florida's governor had no problems lifting tolls throughout the state and airlines already canceling flights and giving passengers a chance to rebook at no charge. >> look at what your airline's doing right now, look at what they're offering. we're seeing a lot of airlines on their websites giving the opportunity to change without penalties. >> reporter: irma may be as bad or worse as hurricane andrew. at sfo, abc 7 news. now to latest development in daca, barack obama's executive a that protects alth 00,000 immigrants from deportation.

big question is what's next? abc 7 news reporter looks at the advice. >> reporter: jessica torres's parents brought her to the u.s. illegally when she was three. she's working towards becoming an immigration attorney to help others but with daca ending -- >> as of now my attorney told me i would have to marry a u.s. citizen if i wanted to get a green card because that's my only option. >> reporter: she's one of many dreamers who contacted an immigration attorney to find out what her options are. he's reminding people to reapply by october fifth. >> so they give you a month to extend it for up to two years. these are just temporary measures that somebody can take to try to keep their status leaguel for a little bit longer. >> reporter: today 15 states and the district of columbia filed a lawsuit to block the president's plan to end daca.

california's attorney general announced he will sue separately. california law professor says the states will likely argue rescinding daca is unconstitutional. they may also site prejudice as a region. >> people challenging daca might point to statements by the president in the past about how he views mexicans or immigrants generally. >> says it will be a challenge for those fighting the federal government. >> i'm concerned about my job, what's going to happen with my job, everything i've worked so hard for. >> reporter: they're telling dreamers deportations are not going to happen overnight with daca recipients in the u.s., it's an enormous undertaking. >> students and faculty are remembering their long-time band director tonight. jerry downs was the band director atti ingrid -- he diedn

a car accident. will always be remembered as the district's music man. pacifica police department is investigating exactly what happened. now to a crime in the north bay. a tib ron man is in a lot of trouble after they say he shot and killed a deer and a faun eating plants on his property. >> this is family of deer we watched from the time they were little tiny fauns. >> reporter: they've been taking pictures of a doe and two fawns. >> very outerages. to scare a sdooer, all you have to do is look at you and they'll run off. you don't need to shoot them. >> we got -- >> they found a home owner who

said deer had been eating his new landscaping. nearby a gruesome site. >> we discovered two deer that he'd shot with a pellet gun. >> reporter: they say this is the pellet gun 54-year-old mark dickerson used to kill the deer. he was arrested and charged with animal cruelty. >> you don't kill a doe with her fawn. >> the organization is getting lots of reaction to the crime on its facebook page. most of it from animal lovers. >> even if they do eat your vejeration it's not worth killing a bbeautiful, gentle animal. >> reporter: his attorney says police had no right to arrest him. >> my client had no intention of harming, hurting or acting in any malicious way towards the animals. >> reporter: what was his intent? >> scare them away.

>> reporter: he'sut j on bail. >> and we have a lot more ahead here on abc 7 news at 9:00. the isis not a very complicated story. everyone knew there was going to be a heat wave. >> they knew and weren't ready. that's the allegation. and the long waits they faced when people needed it this is the new comfort food. grown right here in california, with absolutely no antibiotics ever. a better way to grow, a better way to o eat. and it starts with foster farms simply raised chicken. california grown with no antibiotics ever.

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details about a new transit village at the walnut creek station. the transit agency says the development includes 600 apartments, shops and restaurant squaz new parking garage with 100 additional spots and the garage with bart passengers who say it's tough to find a space. they tried to calm concerns. >> this is done in stages. and no matter what happens we're going to have the same number of spots available throughout this process. a san francisco supervisor

says the city's response to the record breaking heat wave was too slow and inadequate. >> everyone knew it was going to be hot, really hot. the weather service warned that on friday it could break records and that the heat wave would continue saturday. >> the reality is san francisco was caught flat footed. the emergency operations center was not activated until friday night, long after we had reached unprecedented temperatures. >> other members of the oversight committee want answers. among them why information about the city's cooling centers didn't go out the public until friday night. 911 dispatchers received more than 800 calls each of the two days. on an average day they get about 200 calls. he says that overwhelmed the response of ambulances. >> the response time is ranging as high as over an hour.

some of them for transferring individuals from one hospital to another. some to get calls for service at their place of residents in excess of 20 minutes. >> reporter: aid was called from as far away as sacramento. but he says the emergency operating center did open friday morning. >> we had a duty officer there, we had a manager on call. so we were ready for a busy day. >> reporter: the fire department did not provide a response to our request for an interview. abc 7 news meteorologist here with it all. >> those temperatures came down. live doppler 7 right now we're tracking the marine layer and watching mid and high level clouds coming in.

what was once a tropical storm lydia is rem nnnants of it and mo around the area of low pressure and that's going to make its way across the bay area as we head into the overnight hours and tomorrow. that's why we're tracking the potential for thunder and showers. when you check out the dew points, you see some spots are in the low 60s. and certainly feeling humid in san jose and mountain view in the low 60s. and until we get rid of the and until we get rid of the moisture, we're

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as the monstrous hurricane irma makes its way towards florida, efforts are underway to get people and animals out of harm's way. a rescue center by former oakland a's star are answering the call. >> oo you might have heard of the tony luruso animal rescue foundation started by the former player and manager of the oakland a's. today the animal charity is preparing the walnut creek facility to receive hundreds of pets in a partner shelter in south florida. florida shelter is trying to mike room for an expected onslaught of animals from people

who have to be there irma. >> currently arf is offering free adaupshzs on our exist canning animals within our facility in walnut creek so we can make additional room and accom dagdss for the animals coming in. >> it's already home to hundreds of pets in the wake of hurricane harvey. these animals are undergoing health checks and many will soon be available to adopt. if you would like to help, more than a donation page up and we have a link on our website, abc 7 news.com. a florida sheriff has a warning for anyone thinking about going to a shelter in his jurisdiction. sheriff grady jud tweeted if you go to a shelter for irma and have a warrant, we'll gladly escort you to the polk county jail. we cannot and will not have

innocent children with sexual predators period. they should quote focus on preparing for irma, not burnishing your joe arpaio tactics with irresponsible tweets. >> and one last update. let's check out hurricane irma right now as you check out live doppler 7 you'll note this is eye is still very well defined. this is a large storm and it will move just north of espanola. this is a category 5 storm, very dangerous. maximum sustained winds, 185 miles per hour. it will be a cat 5 as it crosses turks & caicos tomorrow evening and over the bahamas as a category 5 but as it approached southern florida weakening to a cat 4 and continuing to weaken but it is going to dump heavy

rain, damaging winds to the coastline along with the storm surge. meanwhile, our picture locally very quiet. tracking tropical moisture left over from once tropical storm lydia and as you check out your thursday forecast, yes, it will be on the humid side. definitely mild, midskilkts to low 80s. average high for livermore, 86 degrees. temperatures do spike and it gets hot over the weekend. especially on sunday. accuweather 7-day forecast. watch out for slippery roads tomorrow morning if we get the showers or thunder. after that it's back to a normal pattern and no weather extremes other than the heat on sunday. >> thanks very much. time to turn to sports. >> some giants' action. >> we have the yin and yang of baseball. that is what i deliver this evening. what does that mean? i don't know but it sounded

clever. pablo sandoval is the yin, joe panik is the yang. he can't do this is the new comfort food. grown right here in california, with absolutely no antibiotics ever. a better way to grow, a better way to eat. and it starts with foster farms simply raised chicken. california grown with no antibiotics ever.

abc 7 sports brought to you boy your local toyota dealers. >> if you're a giants fan you know brandon belt is a popular whipling boy on social media. today he jumped on twitter hillself and wrote if you can give a good enough reason as to why you think i suck so bad i'll try to convince the giants to dump me and we checked a few minutes ago. as for the giants, look out sparky's on the loose with his bingy. aursen slater with a bases loaded single and the giants taken a early 2-oerkts lead in colorado. on a role early strikes out trevor story here and then tony walters come gets him. 7 ks allowed just one run. try to hang on to your tool

there. pablo sandoval 0 for his last 37 strikes. longest hitless streak in giants' history and then you have joe panik, doubles down the right field line. five hits tonight. a franchise record 12 hits in the series. most by a giant in any three-game series. hunley as the giants finally get a win in colorado. their first in 10 tries. 11-3 the final score. a's and angels a little matinee action. we're driving that bus. no score in the fourth. chris davis changes that. they call him crush for a reason. so one more and a back to back 40 seasons. and matt chapman takes exception. he ejected chapman when i don't quite understand. but rbi sing tool left. marcus simian, 2-0. davis a sky high pop up. upton i got it, i got it, i got

it. pinder comes around to score. a's go on to win 3-1 and they snap an eight-game losing streak. how about tennis tonight. steve kerr checking out roger federer in the quarter finals of the u.s. open. a back hand and a forehand winner that screams right by fed. match point serving here. deliver as sharp forehand winner and takes it in four sets and he is heading to the semifinals of the u.s. open. and andre, check out nadal's range in the hot pink. that's what i would wear. 6-1. third set, nadal gets to the corner and i'll order a slice, please. ties andre agassi with 224 major

match victories and reaches the open semi 6-1, 2-2. the raiders open the season sunday in tennessee. you got two of the best young quarterbacks in the game. a man from hawaii. very strange coincidence. both guys fractured their fibulas on the same day last season, december 24. the raiders' defense a cause for concern. a linebacker pafs question about the injuries in their secondary. this could easily turn into a shootout. >> both teams go in with quarterbacks that ironically were hurt on the same day. they both have rebounded and had good off seasons. i think he probably came back a little quicker but they're both back and good young players. i thij that's part of the story line for this week. >> i luchb the way he plays. i love his game. i think he's a great leader. he's very poised, accurate, mobile. makes great decisions.

obviously in the red zone. and situational football, him being able to do that at such a young age is only going to get easier as he gets older. >> the larry is everywhere. talking boupt the larry o'brien championship trophy. they held a parade. mcgehee day and he was happy to provide proof anything is possible. >> inspiration for me, even to win the championships just for you guys and show there's a way out. it's a whole world out there. you can do anything if you put your mind to it. >> the trophy's travelled more than 25,000 miles this summer and he was tempted to see what the larry's worth. >> pawn and sales, huh? i got something for you, julie. 100% gold. >> abc 7 sports brought to you

by toyota. most would agree, i think larry pfs are priceless. >> oh, gosh. >> whip it. silence? silence? >> i want to google the nearest pawn shop. >> thanks, larry. >> diverted on the way home from texas. hear from a team of first responders now ready to assist with irma. and remembering a beloved middle school band teacher after a tragic accident this morning in pacifica. join us for abc 7 news at 11:00 on channel 7. >> we appreciate your time as always. >> the priceless larry, thanks for joining us. >> look for him at a pawn shop near you. >> i'm worth big money, dan.

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